Les Faunes Indiscrets (The Prying Fauns)
Les Faunes Indiscrets (The Prying Fauns)

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Les Faunes Indiscrets (The Prying Fauns),

published in Le Charivari, September 6, 1850

Honoré Daumier, 1808–1879; born Valmondois, France; died Marseille, France
Printed and published by Aubert, French, active 1829–1847
x1935-1629 b

Information

Title
Les Faunes Indiscrets (The Prying Fauns)
Dates

published in Le Charivari, September 6, 1850

Maker
Honoré Daumier
Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

image: 21 x 26.5 cm. (8 1/4 x 10 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.7 x 37.9 cm (10 1/8 x 14 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

Object Number
x1935-1629 b
Place Made

Europe, France, Paris

Inscription

Lettered and numbered above stone, upper center and right: IDYLLES PARLEMENTAIRES. / N 2

Signed in stone, lower left corner: h.D.

Numbered in stone, lower right corner: 261

Publisher and printer below stone, lower left and right: Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse 29, Paris. / Imp. de Me. Ve. Aubert, r. de l’Abbave 5 a Paris.

Titled in lower margin: LES FAUNES INDISCRETS

Captioned in lower margin: Viens, Chloé, viens ma sœur; docile à mes prières, / La vierge au carquoi d'or a purgé ces clairières / Des faunes et des Taschereaux. / Ainsi parle Nisa. Riant entre les branches / Deux Taschereaux cachés promènent sur ses hanches / La flamme de leur regard faux. / (Poësies fugitives du Comte de Montalembert).

Reference Numbers
Delteil 2051; Hazard and Delteil 1952
Culture
European, French
Type
prints, lithographs
Materials
lithographic ink
Techniques
lithography
Subject
men, satires, satyrs, nymphs, figures (representations)

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